Fold Line Sheet Metal

Place the fracture line over the edge of a table and bend the overhang slightly downwards.

Fold line sheet metal.

In fold location click one of the following to specify. To bend sheet metal in a vice start by marking a line on the metal where you want to bend it. A fold on a sheet metal face forms about a straight sketched bend line that terminates at face edges. The sheet metal model built with the sheet metal add on rear.

If your sheet metal is long ask a friend to stabilize the part hanging out from the form blocks so it doesn t affect the bend. In front of it the unfolded solid. By default it is always in the folded configuration unsuppressed and hidden and in the flat configuration it is unsuppressed and set to. With the aid of a straight edge and a sharp knife score both sides of the aluminium sheet.

How to fold sheet metal faces within autodesk inventor. So in a part generated with the sheet metal tools your bend lines are stored in the flat pattern feature remember that this sketch you can show hide and suppress unsuppress to control how when it is displayed. Next put your wooden or metal form blocks in the vice and clamp your sheet of metal between the forms. Therefore it is not part of the standard freecad install.

Click the bend line to use for the fold. Sheet aluminium can be cut without the need for a guillotine or tin snips which tend to deform the metal. Unlike the bend flange contour flange or hem features which all add material to the design the fold feature does not add material. Bending is one of the most common sheet metal fabrication operations.

This is done through the application of force on a workpiece. On the ribbon click sheet metal tab create panel fold. Without it bending sheet metal on a nice straight and tight line is deceptively difficult. I have always wanted a press brake for bending sheet metal but it takes up too much space.

At the forefront the unfold sketch with bending lines for export to dxf. If you re like me the shop is full of tools too full. Sheet metal is an external workbench evolved to design and unfold sheet metal parts.